[Zope] Palm & Zope.

[Howard Clinton Shaw III]

On Sun, 23 May 1999, Otto Hammersmith wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone out there has done any work related to publishing
> documents written on a PalmPilot via Zope. The obvious route is to author
> structured text on the Pilot (memopad or a Doc file editor, preferably Doc
> to avoid the 4K limit of memopad) and upload that manually.
> 
> I have two problems with that kind of setup:
> 
> The first is the manual publishing of documents. Ideally, though the
> documents would be sent to the Zope server on Hot Synch. What folder they
> were published in could be dictated by the category of the document.
> 
> My second problem is with structured text itself- with the lack of
> horisontal space the need to indent paragraphs to get headings is a pain.
> I'd prefer something similar to Emacs' outline mode which uses consecutive
> *'s at the beginning of a line to show it is a heading and what level it is.
> (Of course, writing the HTML tags on the Palm is an option, but that does
> beome very tedious.)
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> 1) Has anyone written code to read Doc files and upload them to Zope. This
> shouldn't be very hard but I wouldn't want to duplicate existing effort.
> 
> 2) How hard would it be to extend/modify the structured text module to do
> what I want? (I've been lurking long enough to hear about Z-Classes but I
> haven't learned enough to know whether that applies here.)
> 
> Thanks in advance.

It is probably not politically viable to pollute the Structured Text namespace with
additional constructs, given that the principle goal of Structured Text was to 
avoid these. However, it should be relatively simple to write a Python script to
translate any tags you want into appropriate forms for structured text prior to the
upload.

> 
> (For the curious, I wrote this e-mail on my Palm IIIx. :)
> 
> 
> 			-Otto.
> 
> 
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